Black ornate cross tattoo on the upper back of a woman with her blonde hair in an updo, shown in a three-photo collage with a close-up of the cross.

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Ornate cross tattoo on upper back

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A collage of three photographs. The main image shows a woman seen from behind with blonde hair in an updo, wearing a low-backed cream top, with a small ornate cross tattoo between her shoulder blades. The top right photo is a blurred view of the same upper back with the cross, and the bottom right is a close-up of the cross, which has solid black outlines, decorative flared ends and a central floral motif with shading.

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Dear Nell,

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The cross came back from the foundry this morning, and Father stood over it for a full minute before he said a word. Mr Garside had ordered it for the lectern at Thornfield chapel, a small thing for the Sunday readings, but when Father sent the pattern off he had drawn the arms flaring out at the ends like a window tracery, and a rose set in the middle no bigger than a farthing. Nobody in Thornfield has ever asked for work like that. I thought Mr Garside would send it back.

He didn't. He sent a boy on a bicycle with a half crown and a note saying the rose was the finest thing he'd seen since the war. Father folded the note into his waistcoat pocket and went out to the yard without his tea. I found him an hour later sitting on the mounting block, turning a scrap of black cord between his fingers, the way he used to when Mother was poorly.

I think the cross is for her, though he'd never say so. The rose has the same seven petals she painted on the biscuit tin, and he has cut every one with a chisel he swore he'd broken in forty-six. I didn't have the heart to tell him I found that chisel in the coal shed on Tuesday, wrapped in her old apron.

Bring the good scarf when you come on Sunday. The lectern will be finished by then, and Father wants you to see it before the vicar does, which I think means he wants you to tell him it's right.

Love, Ada

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